The spectacular demise of the Clinton (cash) machine-captured, neoliberalcon Democratic Party, when faced to the Trump phenomenon, would necessarily entail a radical reorientation to appeal, once again, to its natural constituency – US labor and progressive reformers. Michael Hudson forcefully argues that’s the only way out; “Are they to stand by and let the party…
In my opinion, the most revealing American political event in the last decade was the Democratic Party’s embrace of Hamilton, Not Just The Musical, and in the process doing a 180 away from Jeffersonian populism. Hamilton: An American Musical ‘s identity as a liberal touchstone in these troubled times was affirmed when the audience boo’d…
The Second American Revolution has succeeded and the American People have beaten The Establishment, but just like the First American Revolution before it, the hardest challenges now lie ahead. Trump needs to unify the unprecedentedly polarized nation and rebuild the socio-economic fabric that the prior class of “politically correct” globalists destroyed, and he also must…
The Washington establishment and its fans and defenders got their comeuppance this week, and they’re finding it very difficult to get their heads around it. Before we go any further, I should clarify that I’m no fan of Donald Trump, and like most people, I believed Clinton would win, so this isn’t an opportunity to…
Defeated Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton is not about to «go quietly into that good night». On the morning after her surprising and unanticipated defeat at the hands of Republican Party upstart Donald Trump, Mrs. Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, entered the ball room of the art-deco New Yorker hotel in…
The decision by Sanders to throw his support behind the Clinton campaign after he lost the nomination for the Democratic Party candidate may have deprived a third party candidate of the chance to defeat Donald Trump. If anything, the 2106 race for the White House has only confirmed that what passes for democracy in the…
